I agree. They should not be allowed to have the domain on the basis they are a for-profit commercial organization. Never mind anything else. It's one thing if, like Slashdot, you had the domain before you were a for-profit organization, but for a commercial entity to actively seek to acquire a.org domain is simply ludicruous.
Battlebots is, frankly, a crappy show and nobody watches it. This sham of a corporation will be out of business by next week anyways.
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The point of terrorism isn't to scare the victims, but to scare everyone else. I am not frightened by acts of vandalism committed on a car dealership. ---
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This would not have been practical. I seriously doubt this would have taken off even in the complete absence of regulation.
Trunk-size receives? Come on. What normal consumer is going to buy that. Think about it: if it were going to take off, but it was only the regulations stopping it from happening, why then did it not take off in Europe, Canada, or Japan? We have seen in recent history that fewer restrictions have made it easier for companies to create new wireless infrastructure in non-US countries, for example, the popularity of wireless messaging in the Netherlands and Japan, and the creation of wireless infrastructure in poorer countries. ---
It has been well established that the FCC during the 60's was just the left hand of the military. Military radios, radar, and nuclear-control mechanisms all used the same 60-90MHz bands that cell phones would have used. Since back then, radio waves were not well understood, it is not surprising that the military was afraid that using common cell phone equipment, a common citizen might be able to hijack nuclear launch codes or interfere with ground-control radar.
Nowadays, of course, it is well-established that cell towers are covers for domestic surveillance operations, and we understand radio waves much better than we did 30 years ago. Especially with digital compression technology, it has become very easy to insert other data streams (not unlike a RIFF format) into compressed cellular streams, allowing quick and reliable military communications.
Now, I am certainly no expert on cellular technology, but it is not surprising that the 60s were not friendly towards these advances. The government at this time was occupied with hippies. What do you expect? ---
In the meantime, we urge you to withdraw the paper submitted for the upcoming Information Hiding Workshop, assure that it is removed from the Workshop distribution materials and destroyed, and avoid a public discussion of confidential information.
Oops! Now it's on the Internet. I hope everyone saves a copy for when cryptome is shut down tomorrow.
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This is just the challenge the DMCA needs to be taken to the Supreme Court and repealed. With Princeton (=State of New Jersey? Is Princeton public?) footing the legal bill, they can afford to go all the way, and the with something so fucked up as this SDMI is bound to lose.
But then, I wouldn't be surprised if the SDMI people back down to make sure they don't lose their most valuable weapon in the fight against free speech. ---
Let's see here... monopolistic MNC begins spray painting cities with its logo. Illegaly.
If this were Microsoft, you people would be none too happy. We would be happy that someone was using the law against their (illegal) marketing tactics. That is why this is a good article. It shows government officials standing up for citizens rights to not have their privacy constantly violated by invasive advertising pervading every aspect of their lives.
I applaud the city officials of San Francisco and cheer them on their fight to defend the rights of the citizens they are sworn to protect from disgusting commercial practices like these.
Whatever marketroid came up with this should be tried and held accountable for these crimes. ---
In fact, the only market change I foresee is an increase in game sales due to curiosity by players who have only tried the modified version.
That's pretty funny. Someone (who has never played Zelda) downloads the Zelda ROM, downloads this patch, applies it and plays it in an emulator, then decides, "hey, I wonder what the original is like?" and decides to go out to Toys'R'Us and buy the ROM Cart.
This is the kind of fantasy world that exists solely in the twisted imagine of a slashbot, I assure you.
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"hypertext" at that time was theory - we were all "using hypertext" in 1990?
Those of us forward-thinking enough to be running Windows or MacOS instead of some bassackwards Unix clone were happily using Hypertext in Windows Help and HyperCard, thank you very much. ---
Not to mention that because of the space requirements to store x*y, you are actually doubling the amount of space needed, not just adding 50% more as one temporary variable would. ---
Sometimes it doesn't work out--at least at first, as was the case with Ollie Purkiss, a young London chap who interviewed for a programming position. Known as the only programmer who used a graphic tablet, he ended up getting the rejection call from Molyneux. "He said, 'Sorry, I don't think you are qualified enough,'" explains Purkiss, who says he quickly responded, "'Peter, I think you're wrong.'" Molyneux, so impressed with the young man's nerve, hired him on the spot. Purkiss now sits next to Molyneux in Lionhead's offices.
Later in the article...
Even just walking around the office, it's clear that Molyneux is constantly making sure the intellectual capital in the building is firing on all synapses. "Ollie," he calls out randomly one afternoon, "I was wondering, how would you go about swapping two numbers without using a variable?" While Molyneux knows the answer, Purkiss doesn't and is immediately perplexed by the problem. Molyneux cracks a smile and puts his hands back on the keyboard. You know he's saying to himself, "Mission accomplished: new challenge issued."
If someone wants my account, assuming it's not yet deleted, it is:
username: $3crack
password: ls300a
I had a level 60-something necro and barb, crapload of cool items. I finally realized how stupid and boring that game was. Now I'm playing Tribes 2.
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MIT is seriously overrated. Quite a bit of their courses offer any practical educational value; most are science-fiction. How many of you have used Surreal Numbers or Reversible Computing in your job or research. Or ever.
In addition MIT lacks a strong fundamental general education curriculum. CS students start doing CS from day one. There is no strong arts or humanities program. In addition, the student population is too uniform to be of interest. Students do not learn to effectively communicate with other kinds of people or across cultural boundaries because everyone there is the same, and those that aren't don't speak English anyways.
And finally, most valuable about an MIT education would the contacts made. Which obviously you're not going to get browsing a web-page about Molecular XOR gates. ---
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Don't go to this guy's site. It's a stupid slash ripoff with nothing on it, and when you close it a bunch of porn shit pops up.
On a related note, I just violated the posercomment compression filter. Comment aborted
I agree. They should not be allowed to have the domain on the basis they are a for-profit commercial organization. Never mind anything else. It's one thing if, like Slashdot, you had the domain before you were a for-profit organization, but for a commercial entity to actively seek to acquire a .org domain is simply ludicruous.
Oh yeah? I'll take that bet. I'm putting my money on Solaris.
Battlebots is, frankly, a crappy show and nobody watches it. This sham of a corporation will be out of business by next week anyways.
The point of terrorism isn't to scare the victims, but to scare everyone else. I am not frightened by acts of vandalism committed on a car dealership.
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Big != Safe. Buy a high-performance MANUEVERABLE 2 ton mercedes with pop-up rollbars and side air bags if you want to be safe.
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Why? Is anyone scared?
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Nice poem by the way. Did you write that yourself?
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Trunk-size receives? Come on. What normal consumer is going to buy that. Think about it: if it were going to take off, but it was only the regulations stopping it from happening, why then did it not take off in Europe, Canada, or Japan? We have seen in recent history that fewer restrictions have made it easier for companies to create new wireless infrastructure in non-US countries, for example, the popularity of wireless messaging in the Netherlands and Japan, and the creation of wireless infrastructure in poorer countries.
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Nowadays, of course, it is well-established that cell towers are covers for domestic surveillance operations, and we understand radio waves much better than we did 30 years ago. Especially with digital compression technology, it has become very easy to insert other data streams (not unlike a RIFF format) into compressed cellular streams, allowing quick and reliable military communications.
Now, I am certainly no expert on cellular technology, but it is not surprising that the 60s were not friendly towards these advances. The government at this time was occupied with hippies. What do you expect?
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Oops! Now it's on the Internet. I hope everyone saves a copy for when cryptome is shut down tomorrow.
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But then, I wouldn't be surprised if the SDMI people back down to make sure they don't lose their most valuable weapon in the fight against free speech.
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If this were Microsoft, you people would be none too happy. We would be happy that someone was using the law against their (illegal) marketing tactics. That is why this is a good article. It shows government officials standing up for citizens rights to not have their privacy constantly violated by invasive advertising pervading every aspect of their lives.
I applaud the city officials of San Francisco and cheer them on their fight to defend the rights of the citizens they are sworn to protect from disgusting commercial practices like these.
Whatever marketroid came up with this should be tried and held accountable for these crimes.
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Actually, the newer .CHM files are written in HTML even (instead of RTF as the old .HLP ones were).
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That's pretty funny. Someone (who has never played Zelda) downloads the Zelda ROM, downloads this patch, applies it and plays it in an emulator, then decides, "hey, I wonder what the original is like?" and decides to go out to Toys'R'Us and buy the ROM Cart.
This is the kind of fantasy world that exists solely in the twisted imagine of a slashbot, I assure you.
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Those of us forward-thinking enough to be running Windows or MacOS instead of some bassackwards Unix clone were happily using Hypertext in Windows Help and HyperCard, thank you very much.
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bash-2.04$ lynx "http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/04/08/05332 56&mode=nested&threshold=-1" --dump | wc
4021 25765 229997
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Not to mention that because of the space requirements to store x*y, you are actually doubling the amount of space needed, not just adding 50% more as one temporary variable would.
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uses crt;
begin
writeln('Hello World');
end.
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...are they SURE it's really Bruce Perens doing this? They better check.
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Heh. No prob. I guess they didn't delete the account, although it's been at least 4 months since I played.
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If someone wants my account, assuming it's not yet deleted, it is:
username: $3crack password: ls300a
I had a level 60-something necro and barb, crapload of cool items. I finally realized how stupid and boring that game was. Now I'm playing Tribes 2.
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In addition MIT lacks a strong fundamental general education curriculum. CS students start doing CS from day one. There is no strong arts or humanities program. In addition, the student population is too uniform to be of interest. Students do not learn to effectively communicate with other kinds of people or across cultural boundaries because everyone there is the same, and those that aren't don't speak English anyways.
And finally, most valuable about an MIT education would the contacts made. Which obviously you're not going to get browsing a web-page about Molecular XOR gates.
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